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I recieved a nice PR from the fine people over at Elgato the other day announcing to me that they'd finally shipped their Universal Binary version of EyeTV 2 (Note to EyeTV 1.8.x people: "ur screwed"). This means that the new Core Solo mini's CPU usage won't peg while recording Oprah every afternoon (not that I'd risk doing anything else on the machine while Oprah was busy recording). The new version is a free upgrade to those of us who already ponied up US$49 for the jump from v1 to v2, but those of you who've been holding back can still get on board at this special price until March 31st, 2006 (there's that date again!) at which time you'll be cursing about the US$79 price. Oh, and hey HDTV freaks, read this:

This version expands support for full-resolution playback of HDTV to Macs with Intel Core Duo processors ‹ a feature previously reserved for owners of high-end dual Power Mac G5 computers. The full 720p and 1080i HDTV experience is now available on portable and consumer desktop Macs such as the MacBook Pro and the new iMac, as well as the Mac mini with Core Duo processors.

EyeConnect also took the leap to UB . For those who are unaware, EyeConnect is an application you can run on any Mac on your network that will stream HD/SDTV recordings from the machine to which your EyeTV is attached. Fun times! Let us know how your upgrade went—mine went just peachy and CPU use is way down!